Regular Reflection Can Help You Become More Productive

Being great doesn’t happen overnight...

Edition 041 of Design Insight

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🗃 3 Resources

📃 Article - Practice Failure

The article in 3 ideas:

1. Failure is an important part of life. It's how we learn.

2. Deliberately making mistakes can help us to more easily overcome obstacles in the future.

3. By reflecting on our mistakes we will learn how we could do better next time.

🔨 Resource - Game UI Database

• Source: @EddCoates

• The ultimate reference tool for interface designers. This resource contains over 37,000 screenshots of almost 900 different video game screens.

🔨 Resource - Cool Backgrounds

• Source: @moeamaya

• A collection of tools to create compelling, colorful images for blogs, social media, and websites.

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🎨 2 Design Tips

This month we're focusing on design tips from other designers on Twitter 😃

Turn on CSS outlines if you’re struggling with layout

Andy Griffiths @brandymedia

Web developers - struggling with layout? Turn on CSS 'outlines'. It's a superpower. * { outline: 1px solid red; }

Stop using default shadows

RedesignManual · The Ultimate Design Guide @redesignmanual

UI Design Tip ✨ Please stop using default shadows! They look dirty and harsh. Just reducing the opacity and increasing the blur should do the trick. #uidesigntip #designtip

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📃 1 Article I Wrote

Why Regular Reflection Can Help You Become More Productive

It can be easy to fall into the pattern of working from day to day, week to week. Finding the time and motivation to learn how to improve or become better than you were before can seem like a huge task.

However, by building a practice of regular reflection into your life, you’ll notice huge benefits over time.

Being great doesn’t happen overnight...

Read The Article

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🐦 Top Tweet Of The Week

Michael Filipiuk | Mobile App Designer @MichaelFilipiuk

Best designers pay attention to the smallest details.

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In case you missed it, here are last week's most popular links:

1. The Feynman Technique: The Best Way to Learn Anything

2. TLDRAW

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